S.C. Inmate Dies In Lowcountry Prison

Lieber Correctional Institution

State prisons spokesman Dexter Lee told The Post and Courier of Charleston that 31-year-old Derrick Lamont Furtick died at the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville in Dorchester County around 9 p.m. Monday.

There were no details available on the death Tuesday.

Furtick was serving a 30-year sentence for a kidnapping conviction in Orangeburg County last year.